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Multi-Functional Nanomaterials by Surfactant-Assisted Fabrication

Technology Summary

Due to current manufacturing methods, nanomaterials suffer from a lack of uniformity resulting in efficiency and reliability issues. Sandia National Laboratories developed an innovative crystallization method that produces well-defined multi-functional nanomaterials.

Description

Sandia’s nanomaterials are produced using a seeding and growing process within surfactantconfined nanostructures (micelles, emulsions, and mesophases). This process provides unique control over shape, size, composition, and reproducibility—currently unachievable with traditional manufacturing methods. This process also provides the ability to adjust chemical and physical nature of nanomaterials at different crystallization stages, enabling further tunability to achieve desirable functions and properties. Sandia has used this method to successfully produce a wide variety of nanomaterials such as porphyrins, energetic materials, and nanoparticles. The functional materials produced through this process exhibit superior performance at a fraction of the cost in important applications including photo-degradation of organic pollutants, photocatalytic hydrogen production, synthesis of fuel cell catalysts, and phototherapy in comparison with existing catalysts.

Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA-0003525.